LAUNCHED: Please show Variable's description in tooltip on hover

Big upvote on this 👍 This is not exclusive to Variables, descriptions for style colours are also in the same boat. I can’t imagine this is a hard thing to fix? Unless I’m missing something and it’s such an essential feature for design system usability.

Need this ASAP!

Hello there, Thank you for sharing your thoughts on variables!
Variables is currently in open beta, we are working on adding more features and improving the overall experience during this time.
We’re so excited to hear the community’s feedback here, so please don’t hesitate to vote! Your input is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Tooltip description would be super useful

Yes i thought that there already was a hover showing the “descriptions” you named when creating a new style? Where has it gone? You need a way to quickly identify the description, especially when you name color or text styles using the norma generic naming convention ie. Heading 1, or Primary 300 etc. Otherwise what is the point of writing out a “description”?

Please fix this bug or add it is a feature. We are trying to apply primitive variables to our semantic variables and it’s taking so much longer because we don’t have this hover tooltip.

Urgent: Ideally it would show the value on hover
Nice to have: Show the referenced variables all the way down to the value

Vote this up plz ⬆️

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This can only be a bug - what else is the field in the variables for?
It would be so helpful for all users!

As a design system maintainer, the way that variables currently work for the end user make them worse than styles!

While not a critical bug, this impacts the usability of variables for the actual designers using the DS, so in my mind it’s quite important.

Hey All, thanks for your continued feedback and sorry for the lack of follow up here!

To be transparent, this is not necessarily a bug, but rather a current feature limitation because of how variables was initially built.

Now that variables is out of beta, we’ve followed up with the team on this, and they’re committed to improving variables from a quality standpoint. This is at the top of our list, so keep an eye out on our future releases and stay tuned!